Plow.



J. R. ROSSETTER.

- PLOW.

APPLICATION FILED MARA, 1911.

1,056,836. Patented l\![ar.25,1913.

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APPLICATION FILED MARA, 1911. 1,056,836, Patented Mar. 25,1913.

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[N VEN T 0R I M Alorlze'y JAMES R. ROSSETTI-EE, OF KNXVILLE, TENNESSEE.

PLOW.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led March 4,1911.

Patented Mar. 25, 1913.

serial No. 612,250.

To all 'whom may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES R. Rossmann, a citizen of the United States,residing at Knoxville, in the county of Knox and State of Tennessee,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Flows, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a plow which will possessgreat strength and durability and which will enable the dealer with asmall number of parts in stock to meetthe demand for a comparativelylarge variety of plows.

A secondary object of the invention is to provide a plow in which theparts may be readily assembled and will be firmly held together so as topreserve the curve or concavity of the plow and maintain the suclr andgather of the same.

Other incidental objects will appear as the nature of the invention ismore fully understood from the following description and the novelfeatures of the invention will be particularly pointed out in the claimsat the end of the description.

In' the annexed drawings, which fullyillustrate my invention, Figure 1is a side view of a plow saddle, share and landside, the share having anintegral cutter. Fig. 2 is a side view of the saddle. Fig. 3 is avertical section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a bottom plan viewof the saddle, share and landside assembled. Figs. 5 and 6 areelevations of the opposite sides of the landside. Fig. 7 is a horizontalsection on the line 7 7 of Fig. 1. Fig. 8 is an elevation showing theparts assembled with a removable cutter.

In carrying out my present invention, l employ a saddle l which has alandside member and a moldboard member diverging rearwardly from thefront curved edge of the saddle in the usual manner. The moldboardmember is formed with boltholes or openings to facilitate the fasteningof the moldboardand the share thereto and is also provided with a recessor seat to receive a lip or lug on the cutter in the usual manner. Onthe outer face of its landside member, the saddle is provided with a rib2 presenting a horizontal shoulder on its under side extending betweenthe front and rear edges of the saddle, the rear end of said rib beingbeveled inwardly and forwardly as shown at 3. Near the point of thesaddle, in the landside face of the same, is a non-circular or oblongrecess or depression 4, while the lower edge of the saddle is cut awayin its rear portion to provide a vertical shoulder 5, which is beveledslightly toward the rear of the saddle, as shown in Fig. 4, the cut awayportion 6 of the edge being beveled downwardly as shown. The share 7fits against the front edge of the saddle and is bolted to the moldboardmember thereof. The cutter 8 may be integral with or detachable from theshare, in either event following the curvature of and fitting closely tothe front edge of the saddle. `When the cutter is detachable, its lowerend will extend below the front end of the rib or shoulder 2 as shown,and it will be constructed with a lip or lug to engage recesses in theinoldboard and the share to be retained in position. The point 8 of theshare extends rearwardly on its landside side to fit over the point orextremity of the saddle and terminates in a vertical shoulder 9 which isbeveled inwardly and forwardly.

The landside l0 fits closely against the saddle and its front endpresents the beveled vertical shoulder 11, adapted to engage theshoulder 9 on the share, and the curved edge 12 extending from the upperend of said shoulder to the upper edge of the landside and closelyfollowing the curvature of the saddle and the cutter so as to aid insupporting the cutter, said Curved edge being beveled to engage underthe cutter and be thereby held to the saddle. The upper edge of thelandside is straight in its forward portion to fit closely against therib or shoulder 2 and is provided with a projection or offset 13 havinga straight beveled front edge to engage the rear beveled portion 3 ofthe saddle. On its inner side, along its lower edge, the landside isprovided with a fiange or lip y14 which expands laterally toward itsrear end to constitute a runner and the front end of this flange isproperly beveled to fit squarely against the vertical shoulder 5 of thesaddle while the upper surface of the rib will bear against the reducedbeveled edge 6. The landside is further provided on its inner face witha lug or projection 15 near the vertical shoulder 11 adapted to engageand tit snugly in the recess or depression 4 in the saddle and therebyprevent dropping of the front end of the landside. The landside isfurther provided with a lug or projection 16 adapted to engage the rearedge of the saddle to aid in holding the landside in its proper positionand also provide a rest for the end of the handle which is bolted to thelandside. twill thus be seen that the landside will be interloclred withthe share and the saddle so that it cannot readily slip out of placewhen in use and, consequently, a single bolt 17 inserted through thelandside and the saddle will suffice to secure it in position. 1 am thusenabled to preserve the unbroken smooth outer surface of the landside,the bolts 18 for securing the saddle to the beam being covered by thelandside. To relieve these bolts of strain, lugs 19 are provided on thesaddle adjacent the opening for the forward bolt and a conical boss 2Ois formed around the opening for the rear bolt. The beam is provided inits lower end with a socket 21 to engage said boss and a slot 22 toengage said lugs thereby relieving the bolts of all draft strain andpreventing the beam from working loose.

It will be readily seen from the foregoing description, taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings, thatlf have provided a plowof very simple construction and in which the parts may be readily Castand iitted together in interlocking engagement so that an exceedinglysmall number of bolts will fasten the members securely together. Thelandside extends to the front edge of the saddle and the curved portionof the end of the landside forms a continuation of the curve describedby the front edge of the saddle above the rib 2. The end of the landsidethus may be and is overlapped by the rear edges of the share and cutterand is thereby held to the saddle and also, in its turn, aids insupporting the share and the cutter. The resistance of the ground isconsequently taken up directly by the landside so that additionalstrength is imparted to the point and the cutter. The lug 15 and recesset, being located near the extremity of the landside and the saddle,also serve to sustain the landside under t-he strain imparted thereto bythe share. It will also be noted that both the upper and lower edges ofthe landside positively engage the saddle so that upward thrust upont-he landside will be positively resisted and twisting of the landsidee`ectually prevented. A dealer may thus in a few minutes secure to thesaddle, a share having a cutting edge of any desired shape and bykeeping in stock the saddle and landside herein disclosed together withthe saddle landside and false gunwale disclosed in an application filedby me simultaneously herewith, and three shares or points, he mayfurnish any one of four distinct plows.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters-Patent is:

1. The combination with a plow saddle having a vertical shoulder in thelower edge of its landside memben'a longitudinal landside-locking rib onthe outer face of said member extending from the front to the rear edgethereof, and a recess in said face below said rib and in advance of saidvertical shoulder in the lower edge of the member, of a landside havingits upper edge engaging said rib on the saddle and its lower edgeprovided with a lateral flange extending under the lower edge of thelandside member of the saddle and abutting against the vertical shouldertherein, said landside also having a lug formed on its inner face nearits front end to engage the said recess in the saddle.

2. The combination with a plow saddle having a non-circular recessformed in the outer face of its landside member near the lower frontcorner thereof, and a straight landside-engaging rib on said faceextendmg between its frontI and rear edges above said recess, of alandside extending to the front edge of the saddle and having a lugformed on its inner face near its front end to engage said recess in theouter face of the saddle and rest against the side, top, bottom and endwalls thereof, the upper edge of the landside bearing against the rib onthe saddle.

3. The combination with a plow saddle having an oblong recess in theouter face of its landside member near the lower front corner thereof,of a landside having formed on its inner face near the lower corner ofits front end a lug adapted to engage said recess, the upper and loweredges of the landside being interlocked with the saddle whereby a singlebolt will hold the landside and the saddle together.

f1. The combination with a plow saddle having a horizontal rib on itslandside face, the rear end of the rib being beveled inwardly andforwardly, of a landside having its upper edge engaging said rib andformed with a forwardly and inwardly extending projection engaging therear end of the rib, the landside and the saddle being interloclred attheir lower edges.

5. The combination with a plow saddle having a vertical shoulder on thelower edge of its landside member and provided with a recess in theouter face of said member in advance of said shoulder and a straighthorizontal rib above said recess extending between the front and rearedges of said member, of a landside having a straight upper edge iittingagainst said horizontal rib and having a forwardly and inwardlyextending projection formed on its upper edge engaging the rear end ofthe rib, the landside being further formed near its ront end with a lugfitting in said recess in the saddle and at its lower edge on its innerside with a longitudinal flange extending under the lower edge of thesaddle, said flange having an abrupt front end bearing against thevertical shoulder on the lower edge of the saddle.

6. The combination with a plow saddle, of a share fitted thereto andhaving a vertical shoulder at the rear end of its point and having itsrear edge curved upwardly and rearwardly above said shoulder, and alandside interlocked with the saddle and having its front end formedwith a vertical shoulder engaging the vertical shoulder on the share anda curved edge above said shoulder corresponding to the curved front edgeof the saddle and engaging the rear Curved edge of the share, the saidengaging shoulders and edges of the share and landside being beveledwhereby the front end of the landside will extend under the edge of theshare and be thereby held to the saddle.

7. rlhe combination of a saddle having a horizontal rib on its landsideface, said rib having a downwardly beveled lower side and an upwardlyand rearwardly extending inwardly and forwardly beveled rear end, thesaddle being further provided with a non-circular recess below said riband the rear portion of the lower edge of the saddle being out away andbeveled downwardly and inwardly and having a vertical shoulder formed atthe front end of said cut-away portion, a landside having its upper edgebeveled inwardly and downwardly to engage the lower side of the rib andprovided with an upwardly and inwardly extending projection to engagethe rear end of the rib, the landside being provided with a nonoircularlug near its front end engaging the recess in the saddle and the frontend of the landside extending downwardly and forwardly from its upperedge in a curve corresponding to and registering with the curved frontedge of the saddle and terminat-ing in a vertical shoulder, a flange onthe inner side of the landside at the lower edge of the saine engagingthe cut-away portion of the lower edge of the saddle having its frontend fitting against the vertical shoulder in said edge of the saddle andeX- panding laterally and inwardly towardits rear end, and a sharefitting over the front edge of the saddle and having its rear edgefitting against and overlapping the vertical shoulder and curve of thefront end of the landside.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES R. ROSSETTER.

Witnesses:

L. C. ELY, EUGENE GALLYON.

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